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Casa De Macau Newsletter Source: MGTO President’s Report I hope this newsletter finds you all well. Welcome to the September issue of our newsletter. I would firstly like to send our heartfelt prayers and wishes to all in Macau who lost loved ones and There is a list on the next page of our upcoming events and I suffered from the devastation of Typhoon Hato. I am proud to hope to see you in attendance. be Macanese and to see the Community rally together to help th each other during this devastating time. Our “Welcome to Spring BBQ” on Sunday 17 September 2017 and would also like to remind you that our AGM is on Saturday October 21 at 10.00am. This is my last newsletter for this term as President until the upcoming AGM in October, I would like to thank you all for your words of encouragement, love and support during this term. Thank you to our Committee, Interstate Reps and volunteer cooks for your sincere and selfless dedication to “maintain and promote the Macanese Culture.” We hope you enjoy this Newsletter, a huge thank you to Dia de Sao Joao was held on 18th June 2017. It was great to Denice for your dedication as our Editor of our newsletter and see all members enjoy the Trivia and catch up with family and Maria for maintaining our website. friends. A huge thank you to our Committee for organising a Viva Macaenses! fun filled lunch, Lizette for organising the sumptuous menu and a special thank you to Marilia for organising the Trivia Best Wishes (pictured below participants during Trivia). Antonieta Manolakis President Casa de Macau Inc 1 Upcoming Events MACAO SHOWS DETERMINATION AND PASSION AFTER TYPHOON HATO Please find below dates for upcoming events and note date change for October Sunday lunch at MCC. Message from MGTO (Australia and New Zealand) Firstly, our heartfelt wishes and prayers go out to all Date NSW Event details Location Casa de Macau members and their families and friends Sunday Welcome to Spring MCC who felt the brunt of Typhoon Hato’s fury. 17 September BBQ Not in our lifetime has tiny Macao experienced such a Saturday Annual General ferocious and intense storm which also struck Hong MCC 21 October Meeting - AGM Kong and neighbouring Guangdong province in China. With winds gusting up to 240km/h and tides reaching Sunday 22 Sunday Lunch Chefs - MCC record levels, you could only imagine how terrifying it October Lizette and Nina would have been standing in the path of that deadly Sunday Sunday Lunch – storm on Wednesday, August 23. 19 November Chefs Pauline and MCC Relentlessly, Macao was lashed with hurricane winds Cesar Pereira and pounding rain – and the waves whipped up by the Sunday Ryde Eastwood wind became more threatening as the day went on. Christmas Lunch December 10 Leagues Club “Never before have I been so terrified,” wrote one MGTO colleague. Another said: “It was an intense day which I definitely don’t want to experience again. So many people have lost a lot.” One media friend, who was staying at the Holiday Inn, Cotai, described the storm as an absolutely terrible experience. “I was on the 35th floor yet the building shook enough Congratulations to Alexia to make it feel like I was on a cruise ship,” she said. Conceicao Manolakis and At last report, at least six people lost their lives, Con Kambourakis who another 150 or more injured. announced their However, the toll only tells part of the story. Engagement on Tuesday The high tide created massive flooding in low-lying 1st August 2017 areas, causing a city-wide blackout, water supply stoppages and telecommunication breakdowns. The disaster relief authorities reported hundreds of incidents caused by the typhoon, such as falling trees, antenna cables and advertising boards. But with the effects of the horrifying storm behind us, the people of Macao are showing great resilience in getting back on their feet. Many are friends, neighbours and family, a majority are strangers. The massive clean-up has begun, and judging by news bulletins and social media postings almost everyone is rolling up the sleeves to lend a hand in ensuring the work is done as swiftly and efficiently as possible. To see such havoc and despair via the TV screen has been very distressing for most who have grown to love Macao for what it is. But be assured, the people of Macao have the strength, determination, desire and passion to once again return We are pleased to welcome the following their home to its glorious self. new members, Calvin Coulter and Craig It’s only a matter of time. MIKE SMITH (MGTO Australia and NZ) Redstone 2 Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita, memoria da acção de 25 de Agosto de 1849 – Esta espada dedicam.” a tragic hero “To the intrepid valour of Lieutenant of the Artillery Vicente On 25 August 1849, Vicente Mesquita, a young sub-lieutenant Nicolao de Mesquita, his fellow countrymen, the Macaenses in Hongkong, in memory of the feat of the 25th August, 1849, of the artillery in Macau, bravely led a charge that resulted in dedicate this sword.” ’1 the destruction of the Chinese fort known to the Portuguese as Passaleão and to the Chinese as Baishaling (Cantonese, Pak Mesquita married young, aged 17, in 1835, but three of the Shan Lan). The story is well-known, and has been told in a five children, all girls, of this marriage all died in May 1842, recent article. Less well known is the tragedy that followed and another in 1859. His wife, Balbina Maria da Silveira, died some years later. Apparently deranged, he killed his wife and in 1857. Two years later, he married her sister, Carolina Maria daughter and then drowned himself. As a result, the church Josefa. There were two sons and a daughter of this marriage, authorities for many years denied him burial in consecrated all of whom survived infancy, but their daughter, Iluminada, ground. It was a dreadfully sad situation. died in the tragedy that would overwhelm the family in 1880.2 What he achieved in the brief episode that made him famous Fame leads to the envy of others, and people who thought is this. The Governor of Macau, João Maria Ferreira do Mesquita had received too much recognition set out to Amaral, had been murdered by a Chinese mob, three days destroy his career. None of them had ever received a sword in earlier, and his head and left hand were severed and carried recognition of their valour. Mesquita’s promotion was slow, off as trophies. Following this, the guns of the fort began to though honours were awarded to him over the years in what fire on Portuguese troops near the border. A Chinese attack was considered an appropriate manner for an officer of his on Macau seemed imminent until Mesquita volunteered to rank: Cavaleiro da Ordem de Na Sra da Conceição da Vila lead an assault on the fort. He attacked with a small force of Viçosa (Knight of the Order of Our Lady of Conception of Vila only 36 men. Baishaling was heavily garrisoned, but with Viçosa) in 1855, Cavaleiro e Comendador da Ordem de Aviz untrained and disorganised soldiers who fled at the sight of (Knight, in 1857, then Commander, in 1869, of the Order of brandished lances and cold steel together with the shouts of Aviz), and also the silver military medal of valour and the silver men filled with blood-lust. The fort’s guns were spiked and its military medal of exemplary conduct.3 A photograph in magazine blown up. In a savage act of reprisal for the Montalto de Jesus’s ‘Historic Macao’ shows him wearing these 4 mutilation of Amaral, Mesquita seized and killed an unarmed medals. mandarin, a civilian, whose head and left hand were severed, Fourteen years passed before he stuck on a long pike and carried into Macau It was probably was promoted from lieutenant to the first time any Portuguese military force had ever attacked major; not until 1873 was he made a Chinese position, and the reaction in Macau was ecstatic. It a full colonel.5 Mesquita was locally- was the greatest triumph of Portuguese arms in the history of born, and aristocratic senior officers Macau since the defeat of the Dutch in 1622, more than two from Portugal had little regard for centuries before. The Portuguese report was that one this colonial upstart and his brief Portuguese soldier was severely wounded. However, a British moment of glory. source gave figures of seven Portuguese wounded and 74 Colonel Vicente Mesquita (left) Chinese dead. Back in the city of Macau, Mesquita became an instant hero. The oppression of the Chinese mandarins that had bedevilled They would have been experts in the art of petty humiliation. Macau for close to three hundred years had been wiped away In 1851, he was placed in command of a small fort on the in just a few minutes. The patriotic elation over Mesquita’s outlying island of Taipa, remote and inconsequential. It had exploit did not die out for a long time, and the Macanese been built in the 1840s by Amaral, whose death he had so community of Hong Kong raised funds to present Mesquita splendidly avenged, but there was no glory in this posting. It with a sword of honour, made in Portugal, and presented a was, in effect, rustication. Nor did he receive an award in the year later. J.P. Braga, who apparently had access to a now lost more prestigious Ordem Militar da Torre e Espada (Military copy of the inscription, wrote, Order of the Tower and of the Sword), the pinnacle of the ‘The sword is described as being of splendid workmanship, Portuguese honours system, to which he believed he was entitled.6 Years of brooding on the failure of his superiors to with letters engraved in the blade, inlaid with fine gold.
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